The Illustration Departmentさんのイラストまとめ

Congratulations to ID alum, Mirka Hokkanen, for winning the SCBWI #narrativeaward!

To learn more about her, and to see her work, visit: https://t.co/yHWIUSeWga

A. A. Milne processed PTSD (from serving in WWI) by writing stories about his time in the woods with his son, Christopher.

E.H. Shepard was asked to illustrate them.

The rest is history.

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on Ernest Howard Shepard. https://t.co/X6YBfEgiCj

Did you know that…

Gyo Fujikawa blazed trails for diversity in #kidlit?

Eric Carle art directed Pharmaceutical advertising?

Sandra Boynton was rejected by publishers?

Ashley Bryan stormed Omaha Beach?

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This illustrator inspired George Lucas and the look of #StarWars.

There’s Tatooine in the painting, “Arizona”.

Naboo in “Romance”.

And, Cloud City in “Dinky Bird”.

Here’s our #arthistory Instagram post on Maxfield Parrish: https://t.co/bfRGxC3Tv4 #StarWarsRiseofSkywalker

“If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” has been called:

…a critique on welfare.
…a warning against altruism.
…a cause of millennial entitlement.

It was referenced in Peanuts; named as Oprah’s “favorite thing”; and read by Michelle Obama and Laura Bush.

Happy #NationalCookieDay!

This artist—a member of the Standing Rock Sioux, specifically Lakota—said that we should “see the world with both the curious eyes of the young and the wistful eyes of the elderly”.

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on S.D. Nelson. https://t.co/t3ya8Jx7pU

In 1925, The New Yorker (just a few months old) hired this artist to deliver social commentary through expressive mark-making.

She went on to create almost 600 illustrations for them.

Here is our #illustration #arthistory post on Barbara Shermund. https://t.co/ADoasev7sd

Due to anti-Jewish legislation—and the rise of the Nazis—this artist fled to New York.⁣

His emigration was made possible by the sponsorship of George Duplaix—co-founder of Little Golden Books.

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on Tibor Gergely. https://t.co/SQsHaE19mD

After watching the #RiseofSkywalker trailer again, how about some #arthistory?

Maxfield Parrish inspired George Lucas and the look of #StarWars.

There’s Tatooine in Parrish’s “Arizona”.

Naboo in “Romance”.

And, Cloud City in “Dinky Bird”.

Here’s more: https://t.co/bfRGxC3Tv4

In the late 1960’s, this artist submitted art of a blue bonnet-wearing girl to American Greetings.

Her art launched a decades-long phenomenon.

Here is our #kidlit #arthistory post on Denise Holly Ulinskas, better known as… Holly Hobbie. https://t.co/8gBSyVFOIQ #inktober